Bella Thorne’s controversial foray into OnlyFans is the focus of this music video. OnlyFans: Selling Sexy, a new Hulu documentary on the subscription platform where creators sell content directly to their fans.
The site, a favorite of the sex worker community, reached the mainstream in August 2020 when, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, former child star Bella Thorne announced that she would join the service.
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In this clip from the documentary, comedian Nikki Glaser, content creators OnlyFans and Rolling StoneEJ Dickson – who wrote extensively on Thorne’s OnlyFans page – talks about the actress who entered the site and the impact it had on OnlyFans.
“Supposedly, in 24 hours, she made $ 1 million,” says Dickson in the clip. “But then she was very quick to follow on Twitter with ‘Ha, don’t post nude.’ A lot of that was just overkill, you know, the prospect of seeing this ex-Disney star naked. “
Dickson says: “And I think there was also this aspect of ‘Oh, Bella Thorne is really working to de-stigmatize sex work, as if it were so transgressive.’ But that is not how real sex workers feel about it. “
Thorne would end up apologizing to sex workers, writing on social media: “Remove the stigma behind sex, sex work and the negativity surrounding the word SEX itself, bringing a dominant face to her which is what I was trying to do, to help bring more faces to the site to create more revenue for content creators on the site. I wanted to draw attention to the site, the more people on the site, the greater the chance of a chance to normalize the stigmas, and in trying to do that I hurt you. “
OnlyFans: Selling Sexy, an ABC News Original, is being broadcast on Hulu.com